Business Advisor (m/f)

Statkraft; Nordrhein-Westfalen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

International environment

Professional development

Flexible working arrangements

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Job summary

Statkraft, Europe’s largest renewable energy producer, is seeking a Business Advisor within the MEXD team to drive market access across multiple European markets. You will coordinate with Origination, NPAI, Operations, IT and external partners to enable successful market launches and value creation.

The role requires a university degree in a relevant field, strong governance and project management skills, and fluent English; additional European languages are an advantage.

Qualifications

• University degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Energy Management.
• Experience leading complex business implementation or market entry projects.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional programmes involving commercial, operational, regulatory and technology stakeholders.
• Strong project and programme management and ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams across countries.
• Ability to design, implement and optimise business processes, operating models and customer-facing services.
• Excellent stakeholder management across geographies and organisational levels.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate Market Access implementation across Poland, the Netherlands, the UK and other European markets with structured governance and stakeholder engagement.
• Design, implement and rollout market access capabilities; improve products and processes for Energy management and market participation to cover full value chain.
• Advance Poland Market Access within ME and coordinate cross-market synergies and standardisation.
• Establish implementation roadmaps, reporting structures, risk management processes and decision forums.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Origination, NPAI, Market Access, Operations, Technology and external partners.
• Act as interface between local country organisations and central implementation teams; align with European operating models.
• Support the implementation and optimisation of VPP, flexibility, ancillary services across markets.
• Ensure scalable, compliant customer solutions and processes, aligned with current and emerging market regulations.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, harmonisation and automation across countries.
• Build relationships with customers, regulators, grid operators, aggregators, service providers and market operators.
• Support assessments and implementation of new market entries across Europe.

Skills

Energy markets knowledge

Stakeholder management

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Education

University degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Energy Management

Job description

Statkraft is Europe’s largest renewable energy producer, and has been making clean energy possible for more than a century. With a clear commitment to a sustainable future, we need you to help shape Statkraft’s strategic agenda and deliver on its long-term ambitions.

The Cross Functional Optimisation (MEX) unit drives optimisation of Energy Management (ME) processes across business units and geographies, supporting Statkraft’s commercial strategy. MEX creates value by improving core processes and ensuring Energy Management evolves in line with market and digital developments.

MEX delivers business Services such as commercial analysis, citizen development, and co-development, supporting optimisation and automated flexibility trading, intermittent production forecasting, and market access for 3rd party customers. MEX also holds business capability ownership for digital solutions in Energy Management, leading daily collaboration between M and IT and ensuring digitalisation efforts align with strategic objectives and value creation.

MEXD (Distributed Energy Process Optimization team) owns and drives digital business capabilities for Energy Management across the asset value chain, including platforms for distributed energy resources (e.g., wind, solar, BESS, Hydrogen, eBoilers etc) and Virtual Power Plants. Collaborate with business and IT, ensuring end-to-end development, strategic alignment, and continuous evolution of digital solutions to maximize value creation.

As a Business Advisor, within the team of MEXD, you will:

• Coordinate and support Market Access implementation across Poland, the Netherlands, the UK and other European markets, ensuring alignment between Origination, NPAI team, Market Access, Operations, IT and Digital teams through structured governance and stakeholder engagement.
• Support the design, implementation and rollout of market access capabilities in collaboration with relevant teams and stakeholders within ME, implement and improve products and business processes for Energy management with regards to physical market access, ensuring the full value chain is covered including the interfaces from customer onboarding and market participation to settlement and invoicing.
• Contribute to the successful implementation of the Poland Market Access within ME while coordinating activities across parallel market implementations to identify synergies, standardise approaches, accelerate delivery timelines and maximise re-use of solutions and processes.
• Establish and maintain implementation roadmaps, reporting structures, risk management processes and decision forums to ensure successful delivery across multiple countries.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Origination, NPAI, Market Access, Operations, Technology and external partners to ensure readiness for market launches and business growth.
• Act as the key interface between local country organisations and central implementation teams, ensuring local regulatory and market requirements are incorporated while maintaining alignment with broader European operating models.
• Support the implementation and optimisation of Virtual Power Plant (VPP), flexibility, ancillary services and other market access offerings across multiple markets.
• Ensure business processes, operating models and customer solutions are scalable, compliant and aligned with current and emerging market regulations.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement, harmonisation and automation of market access processes across countries.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, regulators, grid operators, aggregators, technical service providers and market operators.
• Contribute to future market expansion activities by supporting assessments, planning and implementation of new market entries across Europe.

• University degree in Business, Engineering, Economics, Energy Management or a related field.
• Strong understanding of European energy markets, market access models and energy trading value chains.
• Proven experience leading complex business implementation, transformation or market entry projects from design through execution.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional programmes involving commercial, operational, regulatory and technology stakeholders.
• Strong project and programme management skills, with the ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams and country implementations simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to design, implement and optimise business processes, operating models and customer-facing services.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and experience working across multiple organisational levels, functions and geographies.
• Experience from renewable energy, flexibility services, Virtual Power Plants (VPP), ancillary services, energy management or related areas is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk management, reporting and change management practices.
• Highly structured and analytical approach, with strong problem-solving and prioritisation skills.
• Self-driven, proactive and comfortable operating in an environment with high complexity and ambiguity.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders towards common goals.
• Fluent in English; additional European languages such as Polish, Dutch or German are considered an advantage.

We offer:

• A truly international environment and network of colleagues across markets and disciplines
• Opportunities for continuous professional and personal development through training and hands-on experience
• Flexible working arrangements that support work-life balance
• Our vision is to renew the way the world is powered. To navigate the complex journey ahead, we need every voice at the table. We therefore work actively to be a diverse and inclusive workplace and welcome all applicants regardless of background, gender, age, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnicity, nationality or disability.
• Statkraft offers competitive terms of employment and benefits schemes, and we’re a trusted employer that puts the safety of our people first. We believe that a safe and healthy working environment is a matter of choice, not chance.